China News Service, September 7th. According to a report by the Spanish version of the European Times, the WeChat public account "Xiwen", recently, the reporter learned that fraudulent acts in the name of foreign exchange have frequently occurred in the WeChat group of Chinese and international students in Western China.
Fraudsters, in the form of gangs, released a large number of foreign exchange information, specifically to deceive Chinese with poor information.
It is reported that the fraudsters pretended to be employees of a Chinese study abroad service company in the WeChat group, and exchanged foreign currency at a price higher than the market price of the bank.
After being questioned by group friends, he still insisted that his identity was true.
After the group of friends contacted the person in charge of the education company and confirmed that he was not an employee of the company, the scammer chose to leave the group.
Currency exchange "two ends cheat", the liar has a very high success rate
In addition to the above-mentioned cases, the scammers will use the excuses of "urgent need for EUR/RMB", "something at home", "high exchange rate", etc., to add foreign students who need to exchange foreign currency and Chinese friends who want to exchange euros in the WeChat group.
After passing the friend request, the scammer will use the avatars of both parties to forge the identity of Alipay and then send the friend request, making the two parties mistakenly believe that each other has added Alipay, and remit the money to the scammer's Alipay.
The reporter learned that there have been foreign students who have encountered such foreign exchange scams.
Chinese media hereby reminds overseas Chinese and international students to use formal channels such as banks to exchange foreign currency, and avoid private exchange of foreign currency, so as to avoid legal liability.